It was a thoroughly enjoyable game of rugby league, worth every penny of the admission. Was quite pleased that Cas came back into it and made a good game of it, but a little bit close for comfort when Chase's DG hit the post!

Smith really needs to sharpen up his distribution, a few times today the pass went behind the receiver and we were lucky not to be punished for it. Also, Sam needs to stop dragging his feet and hesitating when chasing back kicks to touch.

As has already been mentioned, Lockers was an absolute powerhouse again, he just keeps getting better. A full season of this and he'll make a big claim for MOS.

Game could have gone either way. A probable Cas win if Chase's drop had been 5cm to the side, a draw if Halibut had got the rules right and not restarted the count after Cas charged down an attempted drop but fair play to Wigan for maintaining the composure to score on the bell.

played well 1st half even when getting pinged on the penalty count

started 2nd half well, but seemed to lose way a little when Micky M went off. It also had the feeling of Hudds Version 2. Start well and then look a little flat in attack whilst opposition grinding their way back into it

Cas threw everything and the kitchen sink at us in the 2nd half and really had a lot of momentum going. Their left sided attack as a couple of others have mentioned went really well and was very impressive

did well to come back down and score with what seemed like 1st time we had touched the ball for about 20 minutes, as the defence must have taken its toll as Cas gave the ball plenty of air when they had their tails up

all in all happy to come away with the points

Has the ruling on wiping the tackle count after a chargedown changed? I would have thought if an opposition player makes a play at the ball and the kicking team regather, it's back to zero? Genuinely don't know the answer.

Yes, it was one of the rule changes trialled in the pre-season and changed for this year. Some referees have been wiping the tackle count and some haven't.

Lockers, take a bow. The complete performance, without him we would have been dead and buried.
At 22 - 4 we had a penalty in front of the posts and should have taken the two to kill off the game.

Their left edge gave us lots of problems, but on the plus side both wingers and centres helped the young pack by sharing the workload. Sam had a game to forget, but was his foot in touch (again) when he fielded the ball? He's won us enough games so I guess we can forgive him this one.
Don't you just wish Ben Flower was 6" taller and two stone heavier.

The young props did really well. I'm wondering if Greg Burke needs a rest, he was struggling a bit late on.

Mickey Mac on current form is the best hooker in Superleague.

I thought the rule on the charge down had changed so we were very lucky to have got the "back to six" on Matty Smiths kick from which we then went on to score.

No it was trialled but wasn't one of the changes implemented.

rlHererl is a list of the rule changes.

Thought all changes trialled were accepted:
"The Rugby Football League has introduced nine rule changes to be enforced for the 2013 Super League and Championship competitions.

The rules were all trialled and welcomed after Leeds' friendly with Wakefield and Batley-Dewsbury on Boxing Day."

I think all the rules they accepted were trialled but not all the rules they trialled were accepted. There was also one that said if you kick the ball dead in goal from you're own half the other team gets a 40m tap restart, which I don't think has been adopted.

Fair enough, maybe Halibut made the right decision. However, it means that there have been a few wrongs ones this year where they count has not been restarted!

I actually checked this myself as I was convinced it had changed but according to the RFL site it hasn't.

Thierry was his usual awful self today. How did he give a knock on against Green in the second half (from which Cas scored) when he was tackled short? It was either play on (which I think it was) a penalty for a double movement or a try. He still had hold of the ball ffs.

Just seen the match winning pass from Lockers on Wigan TV. Dan Marino eat your heart out!

Paddy

*Bows to Greatness* - Paddy not you Conroy!